Librar-e Turkey Planning and Pilot Project: Impact Planning and Assessment Studies

İrem Soydal, Seda Öz & Umut Al

{soydal, sedaoz, umutal}@hacettepe.edu.tr

Librar-e Turkey Planning and Pilot Project: Impact Planning and

Assessment Studies

Plan

 General structure of public libraries in Turkey

 About Librar-e Turkey

 Libray-e Turkey Impact Planning &

Assessment (IPA) Framework

 Completed studies

 Some outputs

 Future studies

General Structure of Public Libraries

 Turkey

 Population: 76,667,864 (2013)

 Surface area: 785,347 km²

 Seven geographic regions

 1,118 public libraries in 81 provinces and their districts.

 Centralized management

 Ministry of Culture



General Directorate of Libraries and Publications (GDLP)

General Structure of Public Libraries

About Librar-e Turkey

 Global Libraries Initiative

 28-months planning and piloting project (started as of July, 2013)

 26 provinces

 Chosen from 2nd level category of

“Nomenclature of Territorial Units for

Statistics”, by Turkish Statistical Institute

 78 pilot libraries in seven geographic regions

 One province public library, two district public

libraries

Some Problems & Solutions

 Lack of descriptive data about public libraries

 Decided to conduct two different needs

assessment surveys for the baseline study

 Library Data Collection Survey

 Library Staff Data Collection Survey

 Difficulties in adapting CIMS questions to a proper logical flow

 Got help from professional survey company

 Pilot implementation

Some Problems & Solutions

 Difficulties in adapting CIMS questions for local audiences

 Pilot implementation

 Played with the wording, changed the places of some questions to provide the logical flow,

removed the “race” question

 Difficulties in describing the outline of the project and works completed so far

 Visualization, LT-PP IWG Framework, Online data Visualization Platform, LT-PP IWG

Timeline

Librar-e Turkey IPA Framework

Baseline Study

 Needs assessment

 Online surveys



Library Data Collection



Library Staff Data Collection

 Impact Assessment (Stage 1) (February, 2014)



Public Library User Survey



Public Library Potential User Survey

Online Data Visualization Platform

Librar-e Turkey Online Timeline

 IPA Framework helped us to summarize our goal and methods.

 Online Data Visualization Platform helped us to synthesize the data from different sources.

 Still needed to show the outputs:

 Librar-e Turkey Online Timeline

Future Studies

 Gather information from the libraries

 Training plans and reports

 Advocacy plans and reports

 Impact Assessment Report

 Planning the Country Project

Country Project IPA Framework

Acknowledgments

 Global Libraries Initiative of the Bill &

Melinda Gates Foundation

 General Directorate of Libraries and Publications of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey

 Hacettepe Technopolis-Technology Transfer Center

 Müge Akbulut

İrem Soydal, Seda Öz & Umut Al

{soydal, sedaoz, umutal}@hacettepe.edu.tr

Librar-e Turkey Planning and Pilot Project: Impact Planning and

Assessment Studies